Recensori in anteprimaMarilynne Robinson
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December 2018 Pacchetto
Omaggio terminato: 1 gennaio alle 06:00 pm EST
Special edition of Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel—featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past, where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.
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- Cartaceo
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- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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- Bellevue Literary Press (Editore)
- Collegamenti
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Omaggio terminato: 19, 2015 gennaio alle 01:46 pm EST
Serie: Dwight H. Terry Lectures (2009)
In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson’s view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality. By defending the importance of individual reflection, Robinson celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. She explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilization. Through keen interpretations of language, emotion, science, and poetry, Absence of Mind restores human consciousness to its central place in the religion-science debate.
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
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- RoeschLeisure (Altro)
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Omaggio terminato: 11, 2011 febbraio alle ore 12:13 pm EST
Serie: Gilead (1)
Twenty-four years after her first novel,Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, spare, and spiritual prose allows "even the faithless reader to feel the possibility of transcendent order" (Slate). In the luminous and unforgettable voice of Congregationalist minister John Ames, Gilead reveals the human condition and the often unbearable beauty of an ordinary life.
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- General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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- RoeschLeisure (Altro)
- Collegamenti
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September 2009 Pacchetto
Omaggio terminato: 27 settembre alle 06:00 pm EDT
Serie: Gilead (2)
Home is a brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as her award-winning earlier novel, Gilead. The Reverend Boughton's hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Now an alcoholic, he is perpetually at odds with his traditionalist father, though he remains his most beloved child. Home is a luminous and healing book about families and faith from one of America's most beloved and acclaimed authors.
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- Cartaceo
- Generi
- Fiction and Literature
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- Picador (Editore)
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